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Course code: BBS20223o10Semester: 2010/2011 winter
Name: Anthropogenesis
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 3
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr Dariusz Nowakowski
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge about principles of taxonomy and classification, species concepts used in paleoanthropology; main categories of dating – relative and radiometric; primate origins (especially fossil record of Miocene Hominoids) hypothesis concerning key adaptations in our own evolution (the origins of bipedal locomotion, evolution of the big brain and language);the earliest putative hominids; the species and morphological diversity of Australopiths;problem concerning definition of the Genus Homo; the earliest Homo fossils; Homo ergaster and Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis; Neanderthals and their behaviour. Models of recent human evolution.
Competences: Ability to evaluate evolutionary changes in development Hominid. Practical ability to identify the characteristics of the early forms of Homo and the earlier of the available exhibits. Knowledge of anthropological research methods forms of fossil primates.
Prerequisites: Zoology, Human anatomy, Practical anthropology
Course content: Review in detail the diversity of cranial architecture both among and within species of fossil hominins; (including morphology of teeth – in relation to diet); understanding the role of the genetic data in reconstruction of human phylogeny.
Recommended literature: Crown T.J. - The speciation of modern Homo sapiens. The British Academy, Oxford University Press. 2002. Stringer C.B., Hublin, J.J., Vandermeersch, B. The origin of anatomically modern humans in Western Europe. In: Smith, F.H., Spencer, F. Eds. - The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence. Liss, New York. 1984. pp. 51–135. Stringer Ch., Andrews P. - The Complete World of Human Evolution. Thames and Hudson. 2005. Wolpoff, M.H. - Paleoanthropology, 2nd edn. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1999.
Assessment methods: Completion of laboratory training; written test after semester; minimum 60% of knowledge to pass.
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